18-567: The Clare's Regiment , later known as Clare's Dragoons , was initially named O'Brien's Regiment after its originator Daniel O'Brien, 3rd Viscount Clare raised a mounted dragoon regiment during the Jacobite war. When Clare's Dragoons left Limerick with the Flight of the Wild Geese they became a regiment of infantry. Clare's Dragoons remained loyal to the dethroned James II of England and fought against
36-507: A daughter of Gerald, 14th Earl of Desmond . Connor was born about 1605, the second son of Daniel O'Brien and his wife Catherine FitzGerald. His father was the 1st Viscount Clare . His father's family, the O'Briens , were a Gaelic Irish dynasty that descended from Brian Boru , medieval high king of Ireland . Connor's mother was the widow of Maurice Roche, 6th Viscount Fermoy and the third daughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond , and his second wife, Eleanor Butler. Connor
54-552: Is the one referred to in the Clare's Dragoons song. This regiment too was briefly named O'Brien's Regiment. In 1775 this second Clare's Regiment was disbanded and its troops incorporated into Berwick's Regiment. ‘Clare’s Dragoons’ survives today as the regimental march of the 27th Infantry Battalion of the Irish Defence Forces. Chorus: Daniel O%27Brien, 3rd Viscount Clare Daniel O'Brien, 3rd Viscount Clare (died 1691),
72-611: The Jacobite Irish Army loyal to James II . He was the colonel of Clare's Dragoons , which he led against William of Orange at the Battle of the Boyne (1 July 1690) and was later exiled in France as part of the Flight of the Wild Geese . In 1689 James II of England appointed Clare, as he was now, together with Boileau as joint governors of Cork . On 11 August Clare imprisoned
90-672: The French immediately disbanded Butler's and Feilding's, either incorporating their men into the remaining three regiments or sending them back to Ireland. The remaining three regiments, Mountcashel's, O'Brien's and Dillon's, formed the Irish Brigade which served the French during the remainder of the Nine Years War (1689–97). Under the terms of the Treaty of Limerick signed in October 1691, which ended
108-626: The O'Briens of Duagh , County Kerry, a cadet branch of the O'Briens that descended from Donal, younger brother of Donough O'Brien, 2nd Earl of Thomond . Daniel was one of six siblings, who are listed in his father's article . O'Brien lived as a young man through the Irish Rebellion of 1641 , the Irish Confederate Wars , and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland , probably fighting under the command of his father and grandfather. He probably
126-566: The Protestants of the city in St Peter, Christchurch, and the courthouses. They were later detained in the castles of Blarney and Macroom. In 1690 Clare fought for James at the Battle of the Boyne . Daniel died in 1691. He was outlawed on 11 May 1691. Connor O%27Brien, 2nd Viscount Clare Connor O'Brien, 2nd Viscount Clare ( c. 1605 – 1670) was the son of Daniel O'Brien, 1st Viscount Clare and Catherine FitzGerald ,
144-506: The army of William III of England , during the Williamite War in Ireland . On 1 July 1751 a royal warrant provided that in future regiments would not be known by their colonels' names, but by their "number or rank". Accordingly, Lieutenant-General Irvine's Regiment was redesignated as the 5th Regiment of Foot . The Irish Brigade was a brigade in the French army composed of Irish exiles. It
162-716: The former 1st and 2nd battalions James II's Royal Irish Foot Guards formerly on the Irish establishment of Britain. Le régiment de Clare was a French regiment of the Ancien Régime . It first entered service in France when it was shipped to France as part of a troop exchange in April 1690 during the Jacobite War forming part of Justin McCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel 's Irish Brigade. Note : another regiment, régiment de Bulkeley, briefly took
180-421: The name of régiment de Clare between 1691 and 1693. . There were two Irish regiments in French service that bore at some time the name of Clare and of O'Brien. The original O'Brien's Regiment was placed on the French establishment in 1689, and after being renamed as Clare's Regiment in 1691 it was renamed again in 1694 as Lee's Regiment. The second Clare's Regiment which was raised in 1696. This second regiment
198-463: The war between King James II and VII and King William III in Ireland, a separate force of 12,000 Jacobites arrived in France in an event known as the Flight of the Wild Geese. These were kept separate from the Irish Brigade and were formed into King James's own army in exile, albeit in the pay of France. Lord Dorrington's regiment, later Rooth or Roth, following the Treaty of Ryswick in 1698, was formed from
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#1732852135483216-591: Was formed in May 1690 when five Jacobite regiments were sent from Ireland to France in return for a larger force of French infantry who were sent to fight in the Williamite war in Ireland. The Irish Brigade served as part of the French Army until 1792. These five Jacobite regiments, comprising about 5000 men, were named after their colonels: Lord Mountcashel, Butler, Feilding, O'Brien and Dillon. They were largely inexperienced and
234-492: Was intended for him, Daniel, into whose hands the estate was directly conveyed. His grandfather died in 1663 or in 1666, and his father succeed as 2nd Viscount and he gained the courtesy title of Baron Moyarta. He married Philadelphia Lennard, sister of the Thomas, Earl of Sussex . Daniel and Philadelphia had three children: At his father's death in 1670 Moyarta succeeded as the 3rd Viscount Clare. In August 1674 Clare, as he
252-666: Was now, was appointed commander of a newly raised regiment of foot, Clare's Regiment of Foot, an Irish regiment in the Dutch States Army . He was replaced within twelve months by Sir John Fenwick . From July 1751 on this regiment would be known as the 5th Regiment of Foot . In 1689 he sat in the House of Lords of the Patriot Parliament . During the War of the Two Kings , Clare served with
270-553: Was one of 11 siblings, who are listed in his father's article. O'Brien married Honora O'Brien, daughter of Daniel O'Brien of Duagh , County Kerry, and his wife Ellen FitzGerald, a daughter of the Knight of Glin . Connor and Honora had a son: —and six daughters: On 11 July 1662 when Charles II created his father Baron Moyarta and Viscount Clare , O'Brien gained the courtesy title of Baron Moyarta . On his father's death, which happened in 1663 or in 1666, Moyarta, as he
288-515: Was the "Daniel O'Bryan" who was given as hostage to General Edmund Ludlow at the surrender of Ross Castle on 27 June 1652. He went with his father and grandfather into French exile and seems to have ben a courtier at Charles II's court in exile. At the Restoration in 1660 he returned to England or Ireland with his father and grandfather. On 11 July 1662 Charles II created his grandfather Baron Moyarta and Viscount Clare . The honour
306-445: Was the only son of Connor O'Brien ( c. 1605 – 1670) and his wife Honora O'Brien. At the time of his birth, his father was the heir apparent of his grandfather, O'Brien of Carrigaholt, who was a younger brother of Donogh O'Brien, 4th Earl of Thomond . His father's family was the senior branch of the O'Briens , a Gaelic Irish dynasty that descended from Brian Boru , medieval high king of Ireland . His mother's family were
324-572: Was with King Charles II in exile during the interregnum . At the Restoration , he obtained the title of Viscount Clare for his grandfather and full restoration of the family's lands. At the Glorious Revolution he supported James II , sitting in the Patriot Parliament and fighting for him at the Battle of the Boyne . He was in consequence attainted as a Jacobite . Daniel was born roughly about 1620, probably at Carrigaholt Castle, County Clare, his parents' habitual residence. He
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